Microsoft Contracts in London

Microsoft
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,178 3,105 4,226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.30% 11.47% 10.86%
As % of the Vendors category 30.28% 29.46% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 2,361 3,077
10th Percentile £208 £253 £259
25th Percentile £368 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +1.42% +11.58%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 41 82
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £14.55 £19.50 £22.27
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% -38.20% +66.98%
75th Percentile £25.41 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £34.05 £64.50 £50.90
England median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% -

All Vendors
London

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,193 10,541 14,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.62% 38.93% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,931 7,474 10,332
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 129 187
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.11 £16.18
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £21.45
Median hourly rate £23.80 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% -12.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £36.00 £57.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £62.25 £70.00 £62.70
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +6 392 £550 +2.80% 191
West London +8 50 £400 -11.11% 74
East London +2 43 £524 +10.85% 56
South London -2 25 £233 -41.88% 36
Microsoft
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 240 (11.02%) SharePoint
2 158 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (1.79%) CMS
3 39 (1.79%) Confluence
4 19 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 17 (0.78%) IIS
6 15 (0.69%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.51%) Apache
8 7 (0.32%) Drupal
9 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
10 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.18%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) IBM Notes
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.092%) CICS
13 2 (0.092%) MQSeries
Applications
1 331 (15.20%) Microsoft Office
2 214 (9.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 115 (5.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 78 (3.58%) MS Visio
5 56 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.14%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.092%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.092%) Trello
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.046%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 83 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
2 25 (1.15%) Dynamics GP
3 12 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.41%) Shopify
5 8 (0.37%) Endur
5 8 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle AGIS
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.18%) SAP GTS
9 3 (0.14%) Eikon
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 960 (44.08%) Azure
2 540 (24.79%) Microsoft 365
3 316 (14.51%) Power Platform
4 266 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
5 223 (10.24%) Entra ID
6 174 (7.99%) Dynamics 365
7 153 (7.02%) AWS
8 127 (5.83%) Power Automate
9 120 (5.51%) PowerApps
10 81 (3.72%) PaaS
11 73 (3.35%) SaaS
12 65 (2.98%) Serverless
13 63 (2.89%) IaaS
14 59 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 58 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 56 (2.57%) OneDrive
17 54 (2.48%) GCP
18 52 (2.39%) GitHub
19 44 (2.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.19%) Firewall
2 97 (4.45%) DNS
3 74 (3.40%) VPN
4 52 (2.39%) DHCP
5 49 (2.25%) LAN
6 48 (2.20%) Wireless
7 45 (2.07%) WAN
8 27 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 24 (1.10%) SAN
10 23 (1.06%) Internet
11 21 (0.96%) MPLS
12 20 (0.92%) Skype
12 20 (0.92%) VoIP
13 18 (0.83%) VLAN
13 18 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.78%) Network Security
14 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.73%) HTTP
15 16 (0.73%) NAS
16 15 (0.69%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 215 (9.87%) Power BI
3 94 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (3.63%) Data Lake
5 49 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 48 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 46 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 37 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (1.33%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.24%) Big Data
12 25 (1.15%) MySQL
13 24 (1.10%) Tableau
14 23 (1.06%) Metadata
15 19 (0.87%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 16 (0.73%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.55%) Data Mart
17 12 (0.55%) Delta Lake
18 11 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 103 (4.73%) JIRA
2 86 (3.95%) Git
3 46 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.65%) GitLab
5 33 (1.52%) SpecFlow
6 30 (1.38%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.33%) Selenium
8 24 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.92%) Postman
10 13 (0.60%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.55%) Maven
11 12 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
12 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.28%) ERwin
14 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.23%) Hudson
15 5 (0.23%) Subversion
16 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
16 4 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 717 (32.92%) Social Skills
2 574 (26.35%) Finance
3 278 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 166 (7.62%) Banking
6 112 (5.14%) Marketing
7 101 (4.64%) Legal
8 97 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
9 84 (3.86%) Retail
10 61 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 60 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 52 (2.39%) Back Office
12 52 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 45 (2.07%) Law
14 43 (1.97%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.70%) Local Government
16 36 (1.65%) Electronics
17 34 (1.56%) Investment Banking
18 29 (1.33%) General Ledger
19 28 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 333 (15.29%) Developer
2 265 (12.17%) Analyst
3 260 (11.94%) Architect
4 236 (10.84%) Senior
5 186 (8.54%) Consultant
6 119 (5.46%) Lead
7 102 (4.68%) Support Engineer
8 95 (4.36%) Project Manager
8 95 (4.36%) Senior Developer
9 87 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
10 71 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (2.62%) IT Support
11 57 (2.62%) Support Analyst
12 56 (2.57%) Data Architect
12 56 (2.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (2.30%) Desktop Support
14 49 (2.25%) IT Engineer
15 48 (2.20%) .NET Developer
16 47 (2.16%) Azure Developer
17 46 (2.11%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (10.79%) .NET
2 119 (5.46%) XML
3 89 (4.09%) .NET Core
4 80 (3.67%) .NET Framework
5 62 (2.85%) CSS
6 58 (2.66%) HTML
7 57 (2.62%) JSON
8 56 (2.57%) REST
9 49 (2.25%) AngularJS
10 46 (2.11%) React
11 42 (1.93%) Web Services
12 38 (1.74%) ASP.NET
13 33 (1.52%) Kafka
14 28 (1.29%) ARM Templates
15 25 (1.15%) PySpark
15 25 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (1.01%) LDAP
16 22 (1.01%) Swagger
17 20 (0.92%) RESTful
18 19 (0.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 96 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 63 (2.89%) Data Structures
4 60 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 40 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 36 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
8 34 (1.56%) PKI
8 34 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 32 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.10%) NHS
11 22 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.01%) iPhone
12 21 (0.96%) Hedge funds
12 21 (0.96%) Smartphone
13 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.83%) Clustering
15 17 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 447 (20.52%) Windows
2 140 (6.43%) Windows 10
3 132 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 119 (5.46%) Linux
5 40 (1.84%) Android
5 40 (1.84%) Windows 7
6 36 (1.65%) Unix
7 29 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 25 (1.15%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.69%) Mac OS X
11 14 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.41%) Solaris
14 8 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.32%) VMS
16 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (22.27%) Agile
2 420 (19.28%) DevOps
3 353 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
4 273 (12.53%) Business Intelligence
5 263 (12.08%) Migration
6 221 (10.15%) CI/CD
7 212 (9.73%) Project Management
8 193 (8.86%) ITIL
9 171 (7.85%) Scrum
10 164 (7.53%) Analytics
11 161 (7.39%) Customer Service
12 147 (6.75%) Data Modelling
13 139 (6.38%) Project Delivery
14 131 (6.01%) Change Management
15 118 (5.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 109 (5.00%) Computer Science
16 109 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
17 105 (4.82%) CRM
18 101 (4.64%) Roadmaps
19 96 (4.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 334 (15.34%) SQL
2 311 (14.28%) PowerShell
3 266 (12.21%) C#
4 162 (7.44%) Python
5 88 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 86 (3.95%) Java
7 69 (3.17%) Bicep
8 47 (2.16%) T-SQL
9 36 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 30 (1.38%) Bash
11 25 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 18 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (0.60%) PHP
14 12 (0.55%) Go
14 12 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.51%) VBA
16 10 (0.46%) C++
16 10 (0.46%) Scala
17 9 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 315 (14.46%) Degree
2 185 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 156 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 95 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 75 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 44 (2.02%) CISSP
8 38 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (1.15%) CISM
12 20 (0.92%) CCNA
13 19 (0.87%) A+ Certification
13 19 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.83%) CCNP
15 17 (0.78%) PMP
16 15 (0.69%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.64%) Master's Degree
18 13 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
19 12 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.58%) SLA
2 73 (3.35%) QA
3 52 (2.39%) GDPR
4 51 (2.34%) PMO
5 45 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.79%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.61%) NIST
8 34 (1.56%) Accessibility
9 18 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.64%) WCAG
11 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.55%) NCSC
13 9 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.37%) GRC
15 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.28%) GAAP
16 6 (0.28%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.23%) COBIT
18 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 455 (20.89%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.12%) Docker
3 57 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.64%) vSphere
7 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.23%) NFS
9 5 (0.23%) XenApp
10 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 120 (5.51%) SCCM
2 114 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 99 (4.55%) Terraform
4 95 (4.36%) Kubernetes
5 32 (1.47%) Ansible
6 28 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
7 26 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (0.92%) WSUS
10 18 (0.83%) Grafana
10 18 (0.83%) Prometheus
11 15 (0.69%) SCOM
12 13 (0.60%) Puppet
13 11 (0.51%) Consul
13 11 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.51%) Netcool
14 10 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 9 (0.41%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.37%) PingFederate
16 8 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 157 (7.21%) Oracle
2 122 (5.60%) SAP
3 110 (5.05%) VMware
4 87 (3.99%) ServiceNow
5 79 (3.63%) Google
6 75 (3.44%) Citrix
7 67 (3.08%) Cisco
8 60 (2.75%) Databricks
9 58 (2.66%) Salesforce
10 55 (2.53%) Apple
11 43 (1.97%) Dell
12 42 (1.93%) Adobe
13 38 (1.74%) Splunk
14 27 (1.24%) IBM
15 25 (1.15%) HP
16 24 (1.10%) Qualys
17 23 (1.06%) Palo Alto
18 18 (0.83%) NetApp
18 18 (0.83%) SolarWinds
19 16 (0.73%) CyberArk